Elijah Cummings: “That's not what I asked you. I said do you see it as a major problem?”

The American people demanded that their representatives in Washington fight for them and for what affects their lives on a day-to-day basis.

Asian Americans are becoming more politically visible, and our numbers are showing that.

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.